单词 | minnesota |
释义 | Minnesotan. 1. Minnesota shift n. American Football (now historical) an attacking manoeuvre used in college football, originally developed by the University of Minnesota team (see quot. 1971). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1910 Minneapolis Tribune 30 Oct. (Sport section) 1/5 The Minnesota offense with the shift plays and the fake forward passes proved confusing to the Chicago defense.] 1910 Evening Observer (Dunkirk, N.Y.) 19 Nov. 6/4 The dominant opinion is that Yale will use variations of the Minnesota shift which was used so effectively against Princeton. 1912 Collier's 23 Nov. 11/2 He hears people about him rattling away about ‘Minnesota shifts’, ‘secondary defense’, and so on. 1971 A. Danzig Oh, how they played Game 236 The principal feature of the Minnesota shift was tackles back, ends and guards wide. The tackles jumped into the line, set for an instant, and they would be gone. The tackles would go into the line at the last moment, on one side or the other, as the ends closed in to their positions. 1994 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 15 c Williams introduced the forward pass and the ‘Minnesota shift’ and was named to the College Football Hall of Fame. 2. Minnesota Man n. Physical Anthropology a human skeleton from the late Pleistocene found in Minnesota in 1931.The skeleton was soon after identified as that of a young female. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1932 A. E. Jenks in Science 10 June 608/2 Complete scientific data will later be presented on the Pleistocene man—which, for purposes of identification, we name ‘the Minnesota Man’. 1952 T. K. Penniman Hundred Years Anthropol. (rev. ed.) 416 At least one of the claimants for antiquity actually belongs to the Late Pleistocene period, i.e., ‘Minnesota Man’ (actually a girl). 1976 N.Y. Times 19 Mar. 35/1 ‘Minnesota Man’ is now ‘Minnesota Woman’, by order of the State Legislature... Although the bones were named ‘Minnesota Man’, it was long known that they were the remains of a female. 3. Psychology. attributive. Designating any of various psychological procedures devised at the University of Minnesota; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory n. a personality test made up of over 500 items, the responses to which measure the strengths of various personality traits in accordance with criteria calculated from groups of normal subjects, and subjects with clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorders (abbreviated MMPI). ΚΠ 1946 Jrnl. Appl. Psychol. 30 517 The present paper presents preliminary data on the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) with respect to differential diagnosis, with secondary findings upon the subject of overall identification of ‘abnormals’ from people in general. 1956 Univ. Minnesota Med. Bull. 28 98 The Minnesota Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia is now in its sixth revision. 1973 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 122 65 The tasks presented to the subjects consisted of Block Counting..and the Depression scale from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). 1993 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 21/3 The Test..is based on the classic Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, introduced in 1940. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910 |
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